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TURIN, Italy (AP) — Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest, a clear show of popular support for the group’s war-ravaged nation that went beyond music. The band and its song “Stefania” beat 24 other performers early Sunday

The European continent – and Australia, for some reason – are preparing to crown the winner on Saturday of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, a pop song extravaganza invented as an alternative to World War III.

For the first time in two years, the Eurovision Song Contest will take place on Saturday, pitting the countries of Europe (and some invited interlopers, like the American rapper Flo-Rida) against each other to see who can write the catchiest pop song of the year.

Israel’s Eden Alene won a place Tuesday in the finals of the Eurovision song contest, despite pro-Palestinian protests outside the event in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She is the country’s first Ethiopian Jewish contender in the annual European song contest.

The Eurovision Song Contest and the Glastonbury Music Festival have been cancelled as Europe shuts down during the growing coronavirus pandemic.

Inbound tourism to Israel has soared to nearly 2.6 million tourists so far in 2019 — a rise of nearly 10 percent against the same period last year, the Central Bureau of Statistics said Monday.

TEL AVIV — As Madonna landed in Israel ahead of her performance at the Eurovision Song Contest final, Sylvan Adams, the Canadian-Israeli philanthropist who picked up the hefty $1.3 million tab to bring her here, said the headlines garnered by the megastar’s visit would be worth every penny. 

TEL AVIV – Ahead of what is expected to be an eventful but tense-filled May, the IDF on Tuesday deployed the Iron Dome missile defense system throughout the country after a rocket was launched from Gaza the previous night. 

The BBC has rejected a call from dozens of British cultural figures to push for relocating the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest from Israel to another country, saying Wednesday the contest is not political.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate on Wednesday called to boycott the 2019 Eurovision Contest, scheduled to take place in May in Tel Aviv, despite the journalists’ claim that the music event may be held in “occupied Palestine.”

The organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have ended months of speculation by confirming next year’s competition will be held in Tel Aviv.

TEL AVIV – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Friday claimed Israel’s win at the 2018 Eurovision contest was rigged by “imperialists” and “Israel knows only how to kill, not how to sing.”

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Culture Minister Miri Regev on Thursday declared that if Israel can’t host the Eurovision song contest in Jerusalem next year, it should not host it at all. 

TEL AVIV – Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest dispelled rumors that next year’s competition would not take place in Israel as “speculation only,” JTA reported. 

TEL AVIV – The Eurovision Song Contest on Tuesday told fans to hold off booking flights to Israel for next year’s competition in Israel amid concerns about politicization following remarks by Israeli ministers.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Communications Minister has invited several Arab states to take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest set to take place in Jerusalem.

Irish TV host Mike Murphy and former Eurovision winner Charlie McGettigan have joined politicians in calling for Ireland to boycott next year’s song contest in Israel.

A  leading German newspaper has been accused of crossing a “red line” with a caricature of Benjamin Netanyahu portraying the Israeli Prime Minister with outsized lips, ears and nose.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made chicken arms as he walked into the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday in honor of Netta Barzilai’s victory at the Eurovision song contest the night before. He also opened his remarks by saying “Boker TOY,” a play on the Hebrew phrase for “good morning,” using the name of Barzilai’s song. 

A series of opinion polls have found the majority of Brits if given the chance to vote on the matter, would choose to leave the Eurovision song contest. A new YouGov poll showed that 56 percent would be in favour of

DONETSK, Ukraine (AFP) – The buzz surrounding the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev has barely created a ripple in eastern Ukraine after being banned by Russian TV – the only broadcasters aired in the war-ravaged region. This vacuum has left enthusiastic

Imri Ziv, Israel’s entrant in this year’s Eurovision, advanced Thursday night to the finals of the international singing competition.

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Ukrainian pop singer Jamala wins the Eurovision contest with a song that evoked Moscow’s deportation of members of her Crimean ethnic group during World War II.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s most famous satirists released a video with a mock entry by the Islamic State into the Eurovision Song Contest.

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s Jamala struck a surprise gold in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with a song “1944” about war-time deportations of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union in one of the most controversial winners in the competition’s history.

A U.S. broadcaster is about to confuse millions of Americans by broadcasting the Eurovision Song Contest. You will probably be one of them.

In an ideal world, the Eurovision Song Contest would be all about music and cross-border camaraderie. In reality, delicate diplomacy is essential to prevent politics from spilling into the annual glitz fest. A cast of hopeful artists from 26 countries

The BBC has come under fire for not showing a dance routine designed to highlight the plight of refugees in Europe. The dance, entitled ‘The Grey People’, was performed during the intermission of last night’s Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals, but

A leftist politician in Russia has decided to launch ‘Goodvision’, his own family-friendly folk music antidote to the annual Eurovision Song Contest being held in Stockholm later this month. The Eurovision Song Contest has long-generated controversy in Russia. It has previously been called

The flags of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be banned from the arena at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, but the European Union and Rainbow flags will be permitted.

This years’ Eurovision song contest will have a refugee crisis theme organisers have announced, with entertainment during the event being used to convey a pro-migrant message. It started out as a friendly song competition in the 1950s and launched the

Ynetnews reports: Israeli singer Amir Haddad, who participated in the fourth season of Israeli singing competition “A Star is Born” a decade ago, has been chosen to represent France at the Eurovision song contest, which will be held in Stockholm this

Ukraine – which, under attack by Putin’s Russia, was not able to attend Eurovision 2015 – has chosen to submit to Eurovision 2016 a Crimean-Tatar song about the 1944 forced deportation of the entire population of Crimea’s native Tatar people by the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin.

It has been a difficult week for Greece, whose as-of-yet insurmountable debt to the European Union and International Monetary Fund continues unpaid and with little hope of preventing a default.

After an “embarrassing” episode in which a European crowd protested Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine by booing Russia’s 2014 entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, event organizers have installed “sound reducers” designed to remove booing from the broadcast when Russian contestant Polina Gagarina takes the stage on Saturday.